Cherry Stone Game

It's been the negatives of 1991 that have been going through the scanner this week. Most of the photos, of course, wouldn't be of interest to anyone but family, but there are a few gems that remind me of a particularly fun day or something that made us laugh.

In the week of Spring Bank Holiday that year we went as an extended family group to Great Yarmouth for a week. One of the wettest, coldest weeks I've ever spent down there. On one particularly rainy day we hired a boat and took it down the Norfolk Broads from Wroxham. And it's in that maze of anonymous waterways (because from this kind of boat you can't see over the reeds on either side) that we indulged in this pasttime...


Step 1 - eat a cherry.

Step 2 - fire the cherry stone (bio-degradable, let's not be ungreen...) through the open
roof to try to hit passing floating objects, sticks, cans, cabin cruisers or duckies...

How to cheat - Mum uses machine gun fire...

Please note that no duckies were harmed during the making of this blog...

Large versions of the photos: Oh, give over...